Governance

Standards you can read, not just trust.

Technology Fist is both the software provider and the publisher of record for venues on the publishing plan. That responsibility comes with published standards for ethics, peer review, and editorial conduct — applied to every venue, and written down where anyone can check them.

Our role

A publisher with independent academic oversight

Technology Fist owns and operates the platform and, on the publishing plan, is built to register accepted papers with permanent DOIs and deposit their metadata with Crossref.

Editorial decisions rest with each venue's chairs and editors. Acceptance is decided on a paper's methods, evidence, and fit with scope — never on an author's institution, seniority, or ability to pay a fee.

The framework

We follow COPE principles, on every venue

Our standards follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) principles: honest reporting, correct authorship, declared conflicts of interest, and a clear route to raise concerns.

Suspected plagiarism, fabricated data, or duplicate submission is investigated before any decision, and can lead to rejection or, after publication, a formal retraction. Corrections and retractions are published as dated, linked notices — nothing published is quietly edited or removed.

Independent oversight

Academic Advisory & Editorial Board

The standards above are advised on by practising academics. The board is currently drawn from computing and cybersecurity, and we are actively appointing members in further disciplines as the platform grows.

Prof. Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
Board member
Professor of Cybersecurity Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Abu Dhabi University · United Arab Emirates
Cybersecurity engineering, authentication and applied cryptography. Senior Member, IEEE.
Dr Nikolaos Pitropakis
Board member
Associate Professor, Cybersecurity Research Lab
The American College of Greece · Greece
Digital systems security, cybersecurity, privacy.
Prof. Tamara Zhukabayeva
Board member
Professor, Faculty of Information Technologies
L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana · Kazakhstan
IoT and cyber-physical system security, machine learning for threat detection, privacy-preserving and federated learning, cloud and edge security.
Dr Umar Mujahid Khokhar
Board member
Associate Professor of Information Technology
Georgia Gwinnett College · United States
Security and privacy, ultra-lightweight cryptography for pervasive systems, ethical hacking and penetration testing.
Subject specialists
Dr Jawad Ahmad
Subject specialist
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
College of Computer Engineering and Science, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University · Saudi Arabia
Cryptography, information security, intrusion detection, multimedia encryption, machine learning. Senior Member, IEEE.
Dr Kia Dashtipour
Subject specialist
Lecturer in Computing, School of Computing
Edinburgh Napier University · United Kingdom
Multimodal signal and image processing, audiovisual speech enhancement, sentiment and opinion mining, natural language processing.

Interested in a board, editor, or reviewer role? See information for editors & reviewers.

The authoritative documents

The Rule Book, the Handbook, and our policies

The standards above are set out in full in these documents — read them in the Legal & policies hub.

Publishing Rule Book
Ethics, peer review, authorship, originality, committee structure, and financial transparency.
Conference Organizer Handbook
A practical, phase-by-phase guide to meeting the Rule Book's standards.
Editorial & Review Policy
How submissions are reviewed, how decisions are made, and how appeals are handled.
Author Agreement & Licensing
What authors confirm on submission, and the licence their published work carries.

Publish with a publisher that shows its work.

Read the underlying agreements, or see how a venue runs on the platform.

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